Titled: Symphony Fest 2007

Well, at last our much-awaited event has been over, and it is AWESOME. Thinking back, we had been sacrificing our last week of holidays to come back and to have training for the event. It is what i would call a gathering of musical talents. In this event, UTP Orchestra has spent time and efforts in making this event a success. Well, being a member of Chinese Musical Division of UTP Orchestra, i somewhat felt proud, to be part of this event. In our division, we are given the opportunity to play 6 songs. Alright, the 1st song for our division in this event is a interesting piece and it titled 红旗染上红旗扬, as we are accompanying Suo Na. Well, we took hours juz to practice that music piece. Henry was describing to me that he thinks that the composer of this music piece is very playful when writing the music. We also played Rhythm Of the Rain, and 我有一段情。For the other songs, we have several solos. Our music instructor, Mr Steven Goh Suk Liang and Jia Min played Er hu on 桃花过渡。On the other hand, we have Gary Pang and Mr Tan played Dizi on this song, 但愿人长久。We also have a female singer singing "囚鸟“by Cass Phang. She has a very sweet voice, also her voice is also quite powerful. A very good singer i would say. We also have the UTP Gamelan, and the UTP Keronchong to perform with us in the event . There was this interesting piece from Gamelan that i really fond of. It starts of the players begin chanting "Alimasi" or some sort, and for me, it is very anthemic and i felt that the music is very encouraging, sort of like a very bersemangat kind of music. (Raises morale). On top of that, we also have our Indian Musical Division (Sangeeth) to join us in our event too. And last but not the least, we invited Cheryl Samad , and Altimet as guest performers. Well, in short, the event was a big success, as all of us have painstakingly spent hours juz on the event. And not only us, we also want to thank the Classical & Jazz Div, and Sangeeth Div. Also not forgetting are the UTP Gamelan, on their beautiful and well orchestrated music, and also UTP Keronchong, both on their live performances. They also sung very well. For me, i am somewhat fond of multi-layered Gamelan music, as they used various instruments such as Sarun Barung, Bonang Barung and Penerus, Gambang and also the Gendang , not forgetting the Gong and other several percussion instruments (Snare Drum, and Latin Percussion). Well, that's it for today.